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Saturday, 10
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Thursday, 22
January 1891 |
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Current Events:
- The
Great Blizzard of 1891 begins in England and lasts until 13
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Current Events:
- Britain
is linked to the continent by telephone. |
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- Crowley embarks
on a rest cure for his whooping cough. His cure consists of
a bicycle trip, chaperoned by his tutor, James Archibald
Douglass, from London to TorquayA distance of 190 miles.
After Crowley collapses just twenty-eight miles outside of
London, the pair continue to their destination of 5 Cary
Parade.
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- Crowley enters
the Summer Term at Malvern College in Malvern, Worchester.
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Current Events:
- Carnegie
Hall opens in New York with Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky as
conductor. |
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Current Events:
- Work
on the trans-Siberian railway begins. |
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Current Events:
- Thomas
Edison patents the motion picture camera. |
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- Crowley enters
the Michaelmas Term at Malvern College in Malvern,
Worchester.
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Tuesday, 1
September 1891 |
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- Crowley
is 16 years old. |
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Thursday,
5 November 1891 |
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- Crowley fills a
ten-pound jar with two pounds of gunpowder, tops the
gunpowder with metallic salts, sugar, and potassium
chlorate, and inserts the jar into a hole in the ground. After
lighting the fuse the resulting explosion shatters nearby
windows and leaves a large crater. The explosion renders
Crowley unconscious with countless pieces of gravel embedded
in his face. It takes until Christmas before his eyes heal
sufficiently to be even briefly exposed to light.
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Thursday,
17 December 1891 |
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Tuesday, 29
December 1891 |
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Current Events:
- Thomas
Edison patents the "transmission of signals electrically"
also known as Radio. |
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